Key Thought: John now transfers from signs and testimonies to the farewell sermon and the significance of washing the disciple’s feet. The glory of Christ is brought forth as the way, the truth, and the life.
December 7, 2024

1. Have a volunteer read John 13:11-20.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What happened here and why is it so important? What lessons did Jesus seek to teach?
3. Personal Application: Have you ever not wanted to participate with someone in foot-washing because you were upset with them or didn’t want to have anything to do with them at that time?”
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “What’s so important about foot-washing? No other churches do it that I know of. We can humble ourselves without the inconvenience of washing someone’s feet. We don’t wear sandals and walk in the dirt anymore, so it’s not practical.” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read John John 14:1-6.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What does the Cross teach us about the second coming?
3. Personal Application: How can we share with other religions about Jesus when they don’t understand they can’t get to heaven or have eternal life without accepting and following Jesus? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “Why did Thomas ask where Jesus was going? Didn’t Jesus tell him before? How did Jesus respond? Why did Jesus tell Philip if he saw Jesus, he saw the Father? What does that mean?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read John 1:14,17. John 8:32, 15:26.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. Jesus said He was the life. Does anyone or anything have life without Jesus?
3. Personal Application: How can science be true without including God? How can anything be true if God is not included? How far can science go without an appreciation, acknowledgement, and inclusion of God in that science? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “There are many kinds of truth. There is scientific truth, religious truth, social truth, mathematical truth, and biological truth. So when Jesus said He was the truth, He was referring only to religious truth.” How would you respond to your neighbor?

4. Have a volunteer read John 5:38-40.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What is Jesus saying here about the Scriptures? Why did Jesus point to the word to show the importance and significance of His ministry?
3. Personal Application: How important is it when discussing truth that we use Scripture rather than men’s reasoning to make our position on the subject? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.”Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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Daily Lesson for Monday 2nd of December 2024

At the end of John 13:1-38, Jesus says that He is going away (John 13:33). This elicits from Peter a query about where He is going (John 13:36). The disciples do not understand that Jesus is talking about His death, resurrection, and ascension. Peter says he is ready to lay down his life for Him (John 13:37). This is when Jesus predicts Peter’s denial (John 13:38).

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It is in this context that Jesus tells His disciples not to let their hearts be troubled (John 14:1). The verb troubled is translated in Greek as tarassō, which means to stir up, disturb, unsettle, throw into confusion. It is not surprising that the disciples would be thrown into confusion at Jesus’ words.

But, countering their fears, He talks about His Father’s house, where there are many rooms (not mansions but rooms as in an inn). He is going there to prepare a place for them. His words look beyond the coming storm of the cross to the time when He will return to redeem His people. He is looking to the time when this whole tragedy with sin is finished once and for all (see Daniel 7:27).

Jesus says, “ ‘If I go . . . , I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also’ ” (John 14:3, NKJV). It is clearly a promise of His second coming.

What is the basis for confidence in that promise? Many would say the fulfillment of Bible prophecy, and that is certainly true. But in John 14:3, the basis is stated differently. In this verse, I will come is actually in the present tense in Greek (I am coming). This is a use of the present tense in Greek called the futuristic present. It is a future event spoken of with such certainty that it is described as though already happening. Thus, it is fair to translate the phrase as, I will certainly come again.

The basis of our hope in the return of our Lord is not simply the fulfillment of Bible prophecy. It is also, and more certainly, based on our confidence in the Man who made the promise. He said He will certainly return for His people. We can place our confidence in that promise because of Who made it.

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